A Child's Play

I used to search the mouth of the boy who was 'born with a silver spoon in his mouth’

I could never see the keys my doctor opened my ‘locked jaws’ with

I could never pardon the man who couldn't wed his lover for he ‘missed the bus’

I was ever haunted by the man who left our colony ‘under a cloud’

I could never see the daggers with the brothers who were ‘at daggers drawn’

I always tried to find the dagger under the cloak of the ‘cloak and dagger’ man

I was ever intrigued by the house that 'went up in flames' after being 'burned down'

I could never tell the actual colour of the black eyes of my ‘blue-eyed’ friend

I wondered why girls should ever get ‘pocket money’

I was haunted by the servant who became the family’s ‘white elephant ‘

I couldn’t find the ‘ice to break’ when my school teacher asked me to do so

I never could know how a boy could be 'a fish without water’

I always failed to 'read' the text ‘in between the lines’ for I never could find any

I was so puzzled when my father said he was ‘in the dark’ in our lighted drawing room

I waited for the ‘blank cheque’ my father promised to give me on topping an exam.

I looked for the wound on the teacher who was ‘stabbed in the back’ by his most
favourite student

I was so elated to hear my mother say, ‘a bird in the hand…….’, I expected one there

I inspected Raju's dry hands after he clained to have ‘buttered the teacher’

I wondered how a woman could get a ‘close shave’ with an accident

I felt eerie when I came to know that Mohan was in reality a ‘frog in the well’

I never went anywhere near our voluptous teacher, Miss Dias, whom senior boys called ‘a dynamite’

I tried to guess the shape of the tongue of the teacher who was known to have a 'sharp tongue'

I bought a tooth brush for my uncle who 'had a foul mouth'

I always did arithmatics since my father used to call it 'a child's play'

I thought my friend would die as he had already 'lived upto the expectations' of his parents